Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Catholic
History and Religion

Archives

--Year-- 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 --Month-- December November October September August July June May April March February January

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Pope Francis’ Strongly Pro-Life Comments to the UN (“Both/And”!)

United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City (photograph by Patrick Gruban, 12-17-06) [Wikimedia...

September 24, 2015

Reply to Dr. Phil Blosser’s Critique of My Book, “Pope Francis Explained”

Pope Francis, 27 April 2014 (Jeffrey Bruno / Aleteia Images) [Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0...

September 24, 2015

Must the Pope EXPLICITLY Mention Abortion to Congress?

Blessed Mother Teresa spoke very forcefully and directly and at length about abortion, at both the...

September 24, 2015

On the Complaint that Pro-Lifers are “Single-Issue”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was a pretty "one-issue" guy: his issue was equal civil...

September 23, 2015

Atheist John Loftus Reacts to My Analysis of His “Deconversion”

Nuclear explosion on April 18, 1953 at a Nevada test site. [public domain / Wikimedia...

September 23, 2015

Critique of Atheist John Loftus’ “Deconversion” Story

Imploding vacuum tube photographed with high speed air-gap flash (by Niels Noordhoek) [Wikimedia Commons

September 23, 2015

My “Romantic / Imaginative” Conversion to Christianity

Original title: "Romanticism, Wagner, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me" On the northern coast of Lake...

September 22, 2015

Dialogue with an Anglican on “Praying to Mary,” Patron Saints, Etc.

(vs. Dr. Lydia McGrew) Christ on the Cross with Mary as Intercessor and a Donor, Unknown...

September 22, 2015

Venerating & Bowing Before Angels & Men: Biblical?

. . . Genesis ch. 18-19 and Revelation ch. 19, 22 [Etc.] (vs. Ken Temple)...

September 22, 2015

“Is This God?” (Treatise on the Eucharist) [Envoy Magazine]

Christ with the Eucharist, late 16th century, by Joan de Joanes (1510-1579) [public domain

September 22, 2015

Redemptive Suffering (For the Benefit of Other Persons)

Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Caravaggio (1571-1610) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** This article...

September 21, 2015

Searching for the Perfect Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Bust statue from death mask by Hagen, photographed in 1898 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons]...

September 21, 2015

50 Heterodox Beliefs of Luther in 1520

Original title: "50 Ways In Which Luther Had Departed From Catholic Orthodoxy by 1520 (and Why...

September 21, 2015

Martin Luther’s Belief in the “Immaculate Purification” of Mary

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madonna under the fir tree (1509) [pubic domain / Wikimedia Commons]...

September 21, 2015

The Imitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Model)

This article has been re-uploaded under the title, "The Imitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary."...

September 21, 2015

“The Butcher and the Hog”: On Relentless Biblical Skepticism

Cervantes' Don Quixote tilting at windmills [Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 license] I've often said...

September 19, 2015

Martin Luther and Mary’s Virginity During Childbirth

. . . the Miraculous Birth of Jesus ("in Partu") Without Pain Madonna and Child...

September 18, 2015

Arbitrary Bias in the NIV Bible Translation Against “Tradition”

Abandoned Bible (photograph by Patrick Feller, 4-20-09) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] It was...

September 18, 2015

The Tendency of Forcing Pope Francis Into Our Own Image

[Lulu covert art by Chad Toney] [the following is a somewhat modified version of the Introduction...

September 18, 2015

St. Paul vs. John Calvin: “Doers of the Law” Will be Justified

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles (c. 1618-1620); attributed to Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) [public domain...

September 17, 2015

Martin Luther Espoused & Practiced Eucharistic Adoration

Martin Luther, 31 December 1525 (age 42), by Lucas Cranach the Elder [public domain

September 17, 2015

Amiable Dialogue with an Atheist on Materialist Evolution

Charles Darwin in 1854, at the age of 45; five years before the publication of...

September 17, 2015

Dialogue with an Atheist on First Premises in Any Worldview

"A social network diagram: individuals (or 'nodes') connected by relationships": screenshot taken by User:DarwinPeacock [Wikimedia Commons / CC BY...

September 17, 2015

Dialogue on the Prospect of Constructive Atheist-Christian Discussion

Image by "geralt" [Pixabay / public domain] This occurred in the combox of my post, Clarifications re: Atheist “Reductio” Paper,...

September 17, 2015

Review of Karl Keating’s Critical Book, “The New Geocentrists”

Diagram of planetary configuration for 18 March 816 (c. 830-840) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons]...

September 16, 2015

My Wedding Ring: A Third-Class Relic (from Visiting Israel)

+ An Examination of Fine Distinctions of Relic Classes The Pool of Siloam in the...

September 16, 2015

On My Reason for Critiquing Atheist “Deconversion” Stories

Photograph by Danny Birchall [Flickr / CC By 2.0 license] Jon Curry is an atheist...

September 16, 2015

Sermon on the Mount: Striking Topographical Facts

Looking down the Mount of Beatitudes, where the hearers were during the Sermon on the...

September 16, 2015

God: Is He No More Believable than Santa Claus?

Thomas Nast's most famous drawing, Merry Old Santa Claus, from the January 1, 1881 edition...

September 15, 2015

Mary Mediatrix: A Biblical and Theological Introduction

Including a Discussion of the Doctrine's Dogmatic Status and Espousal of it by Nine Recent...

Related posts from Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

Family

Was Peter "Any Old" Apostle? 10 Anti-Papal Arguments

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

Family

11 Protestant Objections to Papal Authority Debunked

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

Family

Matthew 16 & the Papacy (vs. Patrick O'Brien)

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

Family

Inspired Prophets: An Analogy to Infallible Popes

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism